Aeroplane toy



Patented Jan. 27, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

cnarsmn nuuorm, or NEW YORK, N. Y. AERO'PLANE TOY.

Application filed October 20, 1921. Serial No. 508,811.

To all whom it may conc rn:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN RUMonn, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Aeroplane Toys, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a toy having a more or lessextended wing surface so constructed and arranged that it may be caused to rise upwardly to simulate flying without the neoessitybf providing any sprin or other motors, the upwar flight of t e toy being caused solely by a moving current of air.

other object is to provide a means to regulate the upward flight of the toy, when desired, to compensate or the stronger lifting force'due to greater velocities of the air current. With these and other objects in view that will be in part obvious and will appear more in detail hereafter, the invention consists in the following combinations of parts, reference being had to the follo ification: and the accompan drawing, forming a part thereof in which a preferred embodiment of my invention is shown and inwhich- I y Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device shown as attached to the radiator cap of an automobile.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the structure shown in Figure 1 with a part shown in section.

Figure 8 is a section of the front part of the device taken along the line H of igure 4 is a section alo the same section line of the tail end of t e machine. As shown in the drawing a vertical rod 6 is suitably secured to the ca 5 of an automobile radiator though it w1ll be understood that the rod may be secured to any, movable object. The toy may be form of an aeroplane .as drawing which comprises the 7 which may be. secured by a pair of collars 13 upon a s save '8 ada to sli l embrace the rod 6 and de the toy along the rod, and when m e as an aeroplane a propeller 9 is provided. The wings 10 and 11 of the aeroplane are provided with holes 12 to aid the collar 8 1n the .toy along the rod which holes may be ust large hown in the body portion simulate as for example a made in the enoughto permit the along the rod or which may as shown in the drawing, be larger than the holes 12 in the collar8 to allow the toy to have a lim ited oscillating movement to give a careening motion to the toy during its raising or lowering motion alon the rod, in the latter case, that is when it is desired to have the aeroplane move with a careening movement, a slight play is provided between the collars 13.

The rear end of the toy is preferably provided with a rudder-14; which serves to keep the front or head of the toy into the wind. A tail 15 isprovided with a slot 16 just wide enough to frictionally engage the sides of the rudder but to allow the tail to be moved relativel to the rudder. Passing through the tail a jacent to one side of the rudder is a rod 17 suitably secured. to the rudder and provided onits upper-and lower ends with eyes or other suitable means to which may be secured a pair of strings 19 and 20. Along the front of the body at any suitable point, a seriesofsuitable fastening devices 21 may be provided to which the ends of the lines 19 and 2O may be secured to hold the rudder securely in adjusted position.

It will be understood that the toy may be made in any desirable shape or form to bird or other object as well as an aeroplane, and it will also be understood that the.rod may be secured upon the roof of a build' 'or may be extended between the groun and the upper stories of a buildin or in any other suitable place, in whic .case the rod may be 7 of quite considerable l en and in the pm ence of a breeze of s clent veloci extent of the u ward fli ht of the toy will only be limi by the ength of the rod. I have found that when attached to an automobile as shown in the drawing that with the tail set in the lowermost or full line position shown in F 1' that the toy will readily rise along the rod with the machine running at a of 8 to 10 miles r hour and will rise and fall along the mil as the speed is varied.

miles per hour the tail may be suitably adjusted as to the dotted line position shown in Fi 1, whereby the toy will rise and fall accordin to variations in the wind velocity. It wil? be understood that the of toy to slide freely I If the velocity of the wind is greaterthan 8 to 10 the tail and that the present disclosilre is merel'y'illustrative, and consequently various changes and modifications may be made.

1 Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:-

The eombmation of a vertical rod, a sleeve slidingly mounted upon said rod' and 0 provided with collars inclined relative to v the axis of said'sleeve, a body portion freely the toy may be mad'e adjustable instead of mounted upon said sleeve between said 001- lars to' ermit an oscillating movement of said y on said sleeve, manicured to said body portion, inclined ive to said sleeve, and provided'with openings loosely 3 engaging said sleebzianda tail xnember con- York, and Stafe-dfNew York, 7 day of IO 

